Running on JBOSS-4.0.5GA with xfire-2.1.6 soap stack. Changing to spring 2.5 declarative transaction and have an application context doc (transaction.xml) with the following beans tag; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schem...-beans-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schem...ing-tx-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schem...ng-aop-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-2.5.xsd" ........ which gets the following error when the server deploys the application: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>. the URIs are reachable via browser. server has no problem with earlier dtd based docs. looked at proxy setting, it looks okay. any ideas? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116190#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...